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Women’s Shop Coming to Market Square By Steve Sadin Dailynorthshore.com
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AKE FOREST—A women’s shop catering to mothers between 30 and 50 will entice customers by appealing to the children as well when it opens on Market Square in March. Evereve, a Minnesota-based chain of 58 stores across the country offering contemporary casual apparel, will open March 30 in Lake Forest in the space formerly occupied by EJ Mirage, according to Mike Tamte, the company’s chairman and cofounder. Although the store is not exclusively for mothers, Tamte said the merchandise mix is tailored to women in a particular age range—from 30 to 50. “It should be a look for them, not their mother or their child,” Tamte said. Continued on PG 12
Concertmaster Netanel Draiblate. Submitted photo
Symphony Concert to Feature New Take on 138-Year-Old Piece
eople who go to a classical concert usually expect to hear familiar music, not a new rendition of a concerto written more than 100 years ago. That will change at the Lake Forest Symphony ’s “Beethoven 8” performance on Jan. 23 and 24 when concertmaster Netanel Draiblate performs his initial violin solo, which will include three minutes of a 138-year-old piece the audience never has heard before. Draiblate’s rendition of Brahms’ violin concerto, the only one the composer ever wrote, is considered a premiere, according to symphony Music Director Vladimir Kulenovic. The Lake Forest Symphony concert takes place at 8 p.m. Jan. 23 and 2 p.m. Jan. 24 at the College of Lake County in Grayslake. “He has written his own cadenza,” Kulenovic said, referring to a short portion of the concerto Draiblate plays completely without the orchestra. “The composer wrote the original (cadenza) but sometime the soloist writes his own.” Draiblate said it is rare today for a soloist to compose his own cadenza. Though the concerto is more than a century old, Fritz Kreislerm, a frequent performer with Continued on PG 12
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INDEX
IN THIS ISSUE [ NEWS ]
[ REAL ESTATE ]
12 g oing solo
20 open houses
Violinists new take on a 138-year-old piece.
Find out — complete with map — what houses you can walk through for possible purchase on the North Shore on Sunday.
12 c atering to moms
New shop is coming to Market Square.
21 houses of the week
12 y acht club update
Wilmette Park Board votes on Yacht Club lease issue.
Intriguing houses for sale in our towns are profiled.
[ SPORTS ] 23 p layer in transition
[LIFESTYLE & ARTS ] 14 n orth shore foodie
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STANDOUT STUDENT
New Trier Senior Blazes Her Own Trail nous human figure repeating across the torso, right side up he Integrated Global and upside down. It’s simple, Studies School (IGSS) visually appealing, and implies program at New Trier that there is no “right” way to High School has really allowed approach something. Any senior Alayna Rickard to outlook is acceptable. display her initiative. The “I used to be an actor, so I program, open to juniors and was always surrounded by seniors by application, provides f riends who weren’t really a school-within-a-school expe- gender conforming,” Rickard rience taking up the last four says. “I would see them shopperiods of the school day and ping in the girl’s section if they gives the selected students a were a guy or the guy’s section more self-directed, small school if they were a girl. It was hard approach to designing their to see them get embarrassed, so own education. it inspired me to create a line During her junior year, where people felt free to express Rickard decided to study the themselves as they are, without theme of gender and gender fear.” stereotypes. As a final project, Now a senior in the IGSS she used her interest in fashion program, she’s turned to design to create a genderless another of her creative interests, clothing label called Simplex currently hard at work on an Apparel, for which she created EP of original music. a website and started selling Rickard has been active in t-shirts she silkscreens by hand. music for years, studying at The shirts all bear a pattern she School of Rock and performing designed herself, an androgy- with bands as a guitar-playing
vocalist singing covers of Sheryl Crow and Taylor Swift. She’s done her best to remove all traces of those early efforts from the Internet. Her new music is much more electronic, with a soulful vocal style very different from her School of Rock roots. After posting some early demos of the new sound to her Soundcloud page under the name Layna (laynaproductions), she got offers to collaborate with other electronic music producers from around the world. One track called “Until Later” currently has just over 300,000 plays. That was with a Parisbased producer by the handle of Kultur. She came up with the lyrics and melody, recorded her vocals at home, and uploaded the stems for Kultur to turn into an ethereal, beat-centered electropop song. A quick scroll through the comments display how much interest her smoky vocals and soothing melodies
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have drawn. Another track on which she collaborated with an Australian producer called Awae currently has 111,000 plays and climbing. “It’s definitely inspired by R&B Artists and electronic artists,” Rickard says. “A lot of my inspiration for production is [the band] Glass Animals, and vocals-wise I’d say Amy Winehouse or Erykah Badu. The EP is mainly about a breakup. Pretty classic. It ’s about feeling empowered about being on your own.” For her senior project, she’s recording five of her original songs and incorporating her interest in design by designing the case art for the album. Next year she hopes to attend college in New York, creating her own hybrid major combining fashion design and graphic design while still taking the time to find venues to play live shows of her original music.
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NEWS “He’s the Michael Jordan of the orchestra,” Kulenovic said. the Chicago Symphony Orches- “I’m like the coach but he carries tra, according to Draiblate, out the strategy with the orcheswrote the most famous cadenza tra.” Like Jordan, Kulenovic said for the piece in 1928. He said he was motivated to put his own Draiblate makes every musician stamp on the work. in the orchestra better. “I wanted to change it up a “He makes an immediate little and give a performance impression of leadership with which will not have been heard the orchestra,” Kulenovic said. before,” Draiblate said. “It will “His accumulation of musical flow seamlessly.” ideas is incredible. He is a joy Kulenovic, who has known to work with. His energy with Draiblate since their student the other musicians is infecdays together nine years ago at tious.” Born in Israel, Draiblate, 33, Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University in Balti- said he has been playing the more, said he is impressed with violin since he was six. When the three roles — composer, he was 10 he took a master class musician and concertmaster — playing before Isaac Stern. “I was very nervous,” DraibDraiblate will fill at the weekend concert. Also on the program late said. “When I was finished for the two concerts are Wag- I expected him to critique my ner’s “Prelude to Act III From work. He kissed me on the foreTristan & Isolde” and head and said, ‘go play, I’m going Beethoven’s eighth symphony. to talk to your teacher.’” Draiblate began his role as Not long after that, Draiblate concertmaster for the sym- said, he received a 7/8 violin that phony season after applying at once belonged to Stern suited Kulenvic’s invitation a year ago to a child the youngster’s size. and winning it through an audi- He played it until he grew into tion process. Kulenovic said the a full-size instrument. “I suspect I got it because of concertmaster’s role is one of leadership among the musicians. (Stern’s) conversation with my
teacher,” Draiblate said. As he grew up, Draiblate’s passion for music grew, but he was not certain it would become his career until he graduated high school and spent his compulsory three years in the Israel Defense Forces. “I tried other things (in the army) and decided I didn’t want to do them,” Draiblate. With that, Draiblate got his undergraduate degree in music from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and 11 years ago came to the United States to study first at Roosevelt University in Chicago and then at Peabody, where he earned several degrees including a doctorate. Draiblate has had the opportunity to brush shoulders with some of the world’s bestknown classical musicians. He said he had the chance to play a two-concert series of chamber music in a 24-member ensemble that included Itzhak Perlman, Yo Yo Ma and Pinchas Zukerman. “We played the first night in Carnegie Hall and then at the Library of Congress,” Draiblate said. “It was a thrill to play with people I grew up admiring.”
WOMEN’S SHOP Cont. from PG 1
found elsewhere. “Our buyers work with our vendors and their designers to create (exclusive) private label for us,” Mike Tamte said. Most of the tops, pants, denim, dresses, skirts, accessories and shoes are priced less than $200 and many are under $100, according to the company website. “We can style a customer from head to toe,” Mike Tamte said. “We want it to be something she can wear to work and to a kid’s ball game,” he added referring to the versatility he wants the company to provide. Mike Tamte said Evereve wants the customer’s helpful experience to begin when they walk into the store and are greeted by a stylist. He said the staff is trained to determine what the customer wants but to make sure it is the right choice for them. “They should find out if they want to be styled more New York or L.A.,” Mike Tamte said. “When they get in the dressing room if it doesn’t look right they should say ‘let me find you something else to try.’” The company’s closest stores to Lake Forest are in Glenview, Evanston and Deer Park, according to Mike Tamte.
SYMPHONY Cont. from PG 1
Tamte said the company has been eyeing a Lake Forest location for 10 years and the city’s central business district suits Evereve’s criteria for the ideal site. “It fits our vibe very well,” Tamte said. “We do well on a downtown streetscape like Market Square.” Many of the clothes offered by Evereve cannot be found elsewhere but Tamte said the company’s primary focus is service for both the women who shop in its stores and their children. “We have toys in the dressing rooms and train our stylists to recognize the children,” Tamte said. “The mom wants to leave our store before the children do. If the child is happy the mom is happy.” When Tamte’s wife, Megan Tamte, started the business with him in 2004 in Edina, Minn., she wanted a place catering to mothers like her who were “juggling a million different things,” she wrote on Evereve website. “I wanted to create a clothing store that makes shopping easy, helpful and fun—where kids, girlfriends and husbands are welcome,” Megan Tamte wrote
“I wanted to create a clothing store that makes shopping easy, helpful and fun— where kids, girlfriends and husbands are welcome.” —Megan Tamte on the website. While customers will find brand names in the store, Mike Tamte said approximately half of the “contemporary, chic and designer” goods will be exclusive private label merchandise not
Wilmette Park Board Votes No On Yacht Club Lease
Commissioner Abbott noted that he had toured the yacht club building. “It is not a tear down but it does require substantial renovations,” he said. Park District Executive Director Steve Wilson estimated costs at just over $1 million to renovate the club building in a memorandum dated Jan. 13. By Emily Spectre meeting to discuss publicly When the commissioners Dailynorthshore.com whether it made sense to move discussed the issue after public forward in the bidding process. comment, it became clear that ILMETTE – The At a meeting on Jan. 11 the a majority of the board did not Park District Board of Park Board announced it was favor bidding on the lease. “We Commissioners voted considering bidding the on the will never own this property. 5-2 against bidding on the lease property and weighed the fi- There is no parking,” Commisof 20 Harbor Drive, the site of nancial considerations in closed sioner Shelley Shelly said. “I Sheridan Shore Yacht Club, at session. think we have a lot of other a special meeting held on Jan. At the start of the meeting priorities that we need to focus 18. Commissioners John President Olvany welcomed on.” Olvany and Bryan Abbott voted public comment from the room, Commissioner Stephanie in favor. which was filled with concerned Foster also expressed reservaMetropolitan Water Recla- residents. He also sought to tions about investing millions mation District (MWRD) clarify that the meeting was in a property that the Park owns the property, which abuts limited to the yacht club and District would not own. “It’s a lease and [that is] a whole difthe harbor and Gillson Park. did not address the harbor. MWRD announced on Jan. 6 “That ship has sailed. The ferent picture,” she said. it is seeking bids on a 36-year harbor is in the hands of the And the commissioners also lease with a minimum annual Harbor Association for many questioned the Park District’s rent of $138,500. Public years to come. This is not about vision for the property. “I bidding officially closes on Jan. the harbor. It is simply about haven’t heard any compelling 26. the land adjacent to the harbor reasons for us to take over the Given the short time frame, and Gilson Park,” President property,” Commissioner the Park Board held the special Olvany said. Gordon Anderson said.
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north shore foodie
LF Juice owners and Lake Forest residents (from left) Laura Rukavina and Annemarie Ranallo at the shop. Photography by Joel Lerner
LF Juice: Tasty and Nutritious By Simon Murray
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oes anyone still make New Year’s resolutions anymore?” I wondered silently to myself on the way to the gym recently. The question answered itself. Upon arriving, said gym was packed. People were running, jumping, ascending, pulling, pushing, stretching, and gyrating everywhere the eyes looked. I was seeing the New Year’s resolution in action. It’s not dead. Oh, no. The resolution is very much alive. Well, for all you who haven’t yet, it’s time to add eating healthier to the list of sacrosanct commitments you’ve made to being a better you this year. A good place to start would be LF Juice in Lake Forest, where the
proprietors don’t eat vegetables anymore. Instead, they ingest them—whirring 40 pounds of produce together at a time and breaking it down into nutrientrich, cold pressed, handcrafted juice. To hear Annemarie Ranallo and Laura Rukavina talk, you’d think they were speaking about wine. They throw out words like “robust ”, “sweeter”, and “pressed”. But what they’re talking about is their wide variety of freshly made juices, served inside their storefront in the Donati’s Pizza courtyard. Made in an industrial juicer, one glass, according to Ranallo and Rukavina, delivers two to three pounds of produce—more than a couple large salads—that exceeds a person’s daily
minimum requirement. Each product is made with healthy, organic ingredients. None of which contain extra water, artificial additives or preservatives typically found in other beverages. “We’re really picky about our juice,” said Rukavina. A mother of three—Ranallo has four kids—the two had been friends since college and lived close by each other in Lake Forest with their families. They had been experimenting with juices for a while before deciding to go into business together last November. Their mission is simple: serve delicious, healthy pressed juices that customers will want to return to week after week. That’s all thanks to the tremendous pressure exerted by their
juice press, which completely extracts the natural fruit sugars, vitamins, trace minerals, enzymes, and other vital elements. While their menu also includes smoothies, Acai bowls, protein, super shakes, and specialty drinks—as well as gluten free lunch options. On their first purchase, customers make a deposit on an LF Juice bottle; one they can bring back again and again and receive a discount every time—good for the environment and for the pocketbook. An easy way to make a resolution worth sticking to. LF Juice is located at 950 North Western Avenue in Lake Forest. Call 847-235-2090 for more information or find them online at lfjuice.com.
LF Juice: Kale, spinach, collards, parsley, celery, cucumber, lettuce, and lemon. Photography by Joel Lerner
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All the World is Truly a Stage for Glencoe Resident Denise Hoeflich
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self-described “emptynester,” Denise Hoeflich has lived with her family in Glencoe since 1995. Her North Shore tradition continues with both of her and husband Adam’s sons currently attending Northwestern University. A former lawyer, Hoeflich now focuses her energy on her passion for theater. As an actress, she can be seen in the world premiere production of Dreams of the Penny Gods at Halcyon, running March 24 through May 1. Hoeflich’s connection to Halcyon runs deeper than just as an actress as she also heads the Albany Park-based theater company’s board, and is hard at work co-chairing the company’s fourth annual Night of Flight fundraiser at which Coya Paz and Chay Yew will be honored on January 22. Gregg Shapiro: When you were still working as an attorney, what kind of law did you practice? Denise Hoeflich: I practiced insurance defense. I mostly represented hospitals and doctors in Lake County when they were sued for malpractice. GS: What did you like best about the legal profession? DH: I loved going to court and making an argument, be it in front of a judge or a panel of jurors. GS: What did you like the least about the legal profession? DH: Billable hours [laughs]! GS: Being a former lawyer, how would you describe the connection between the theater of
the courtroom and that of the stage? DH: Both theater in the courtroom and theater on stage require the actor/lawyer to convey the facts of the play/case truthfully and authentically. The key to a winning performance, in either setting, is being authentic. It is the truth of the actors’ performance that induces the audience to believe and become involved in the story. Likewise, it is the lawyers’ authenticity that allows him or her to appeal to the factfinders on an emotional level, thereby swaying the jury to his or her side. GS: What do you think of TV and movie courtroom dramas? DH: All drama arises out of conflict and there is something to be said about a good legal dispute! The inherent tension of the jury, the well dressed attorneys and the often-imposing environment of a courtroom all lend themselves to great entertainment. However, the fictionalized courtroom dramas that seem so exciting don’t accurately portray what really happens in most courtrooms. In real life, most trials are often dull and frustrating. In fact, most cases never even make it to trial and settle out of court. GS: Do you have a favorite TV or movie courtroom drama? DH: There are a lot of great ones, but I think I will go with A Few Good Men. GS: How did you come to be involved with the Halcyon Theatre in Chicago’s Albany
company member and president of the board immensely rewarding. I feel lucky to work with such smart, talented and mission driven people on making Halcyon Theatre a permanent fixture on the Chicago theater scene. GS: What are some of your all-time favorite acting roles? DH: Susan in War Zone Is My Bed, and Mrs. Van Dann in The Diary of Anne Frank. GS: As someone whose theater involvement includes being both behind the scenes (heading the Board at Halcyon Theatre) and being in the spotlight (performing in Poetry Is productions’ Bernarda Alba and Her House at Redtwist Theatre), what are the challenges and rewards of both? DH: The reward of being involved in theater both on stage and behind the scenes is that I get Glencoe resident Denise Hoeflich is a player and on the board of to work, every day, in a field that directors of Halcyon Theatre. Photography by Joel Lerner I love. As an actor I get to expePark neighborhood? Theatre? rience the thrill of creating art by DH: In 2012, after an audition DH: I am currently a company working fearlessly and truthfully process, I was invited to be an member and president of the in imaginary circumstances. I Artist in Residence with Halcyon board of directors at Halcyon experience that same thrill to Theatre. The program allowed me Theatre. As a company member, create and shape a permanent to work with Halcyon both as an I work together with the en- theater that eradicates boarders actor on stage and on the business semble in creating theater and and works towards a more just and production side of the theater. artistic programming that fur- union. The challenge of being fully After completing the 11-month thers Halcyon’s mission to make immersed in theater is making program I was invited to join the the stage as diverse as the city of sure there is ample family time. theater as a full time company Chicago. As president of the My schedule can get complicated member, which I accepted. I have Board, I further champion Hal- as I work a lot of nights and weekbeen a company member with cyon’s mission by overseeing ends! Halcyon Theatre since December strategic planning and future GS: In addition to your 2012. growth for the company as well theater work, you serve on the GS: What can you tell me as taking a leadership role in Jewish C hildren’s and about your role at Halcyon raising funds. I find being both a Family Service Board of Direc-
tors and on Clearbrook’s Shining Star Ball committee. What do you get from doing that kind of work? DH: My work in other nontheater related non-profits allows me to give back to the community and organizations that have deep personal connections for me. These organizations have provided immeasurable resources and support to my family and friends and I am grateful to be in a position to return the support. GS: You and your family have lived in Glencoe for 20 years. Glencoe is also home to Writers Theatre. What does it mean to you as both an actress and a resident of Glencoe to live in a place with a thriving theater community? DH: The fact that Glencoe has a thriving theater community gives added value and dimension to my life both as an actor and resident of the community. Theater brings people together, opens minds and ignites discussions. Theater makes us examine our own lives, our values and behaviors. Theater contributes to education and literacy. Theater teaches us about human behavior and expression. All of these are gifts one receives by living in a thriving arts community. GS: What are some of your favorite things about living in Glencoe? DH: I love the small town feel the village has. I love the wonderful friendships I have made raising my kids in this town.
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Socials FLAIR Luncheon Chicago Lighthouse Photography by Richard Sit
Citing her outstanding contributions to both The Chicago Lighthouse and the world of fashion, Jamie Hague received the organization’s FLAIR Award recently, presented during a luncheon at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Chicago. The event, which included a fashion show featuring local designers and retailers, was emceed by ABC 7 news anchor Kathy Brock. Among the models were women who are blind or visually impaired. The event brought in more than $45,000 for Lighthouse programs and services for children. Chicago Lighthouse serves all of Chicaogland, with locations in the city and Glenview.
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Socials Breathing Deeply to Benefit Others Photography by Bob Davis
Heather and Jeffrey Eiserman hosted their annual evening of spirituality and gratitude, during an evening yoga and fundraising for Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital. Led by Mariann Fishbein, Zoe Nitsun, Bridgett Piacenti, Marcia Tazioli, and Larissa Wozney, the evening was a inspiring vinyasa flow practice lit by candlelight.
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1. 195 Wimbledon Ct Lake Bluff Sunday 2-4 $499,000 Kelly McInerney & Kiki Clark, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff 847.363.1738 2. 301 Rose Terrace Lake Bluff Sunday 2-4 $949,000 Jean Royster, Coldwell Banker 847.234.8000
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3. 130 East North Ave. Lake Bluff Sunday 12-2PM $530,000 Jack Comerford, Griffith, Grant & Lackie Realtors® 847.234.0485
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4. 300 E. Prospect Ave. Lake Bluff Sunday 12-2 PM $889,000 Lisa Trace, Griffith, Grant & Lackie Realtors® 847 234-0485
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5. 55 W. North Ave. Lake Forest Sunday 1-3 $497,000 Daria Andrews, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff 847.477.3794 6. 736 Old Elm Rd Lake Forest Sunday 2-4 $569,000 Kelly McInerney & Kiki Clark, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff 847.826.6800
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7. 153 Ridge Lane Lake Forest Sunday 1-4 $1,499,000 Kelly McInerney & Kiki Clark, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff 847.804.0969 8. 1270 Longmeadow Lane Lake Forest Sunday 1-4 $2,595,000 Jean Anderson, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff 847.254.1850 9. 845 Maplewood Road Lake Forest Sunday 1-3 $689,000 Allison Murphy, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff 847.343.4069
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10. 640 W Old Elm Rd Lake Forest Sunday 1-4 $1,990,000 Mary Pat Lundgren, Coldwell Banker 847.234.8000 11. 1475 S Ridge Rd Lake Forest Sunday 1-3 $1,369,000 Vera & Pat Purcell, Coldwell Banker 847.234.8000 12. 383 Washington Road Lake Forest Sunday 12-2 $999,000 Joe Pasquesi, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Koenig Rubloff 847.615.5023 13. 423 Rockefeller Road Lake Forest Sunday 12-3 $1,199,000.00 Chris Yore, Baird Warner 847.804.2879
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24. 1311 Burr Oak Road Lake Forest Sunday 2-4 PM $637,000 Linda Smith, Griffith, Grant & Lackie Realtors® 847.234.0485
27. 410 Oakland Drive Highland Park Sunday 1-3 $830,000 Debbie Scully, @properties 847.432.0700
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33. 1972 Penfold Northbrook Sunday 2:30-4:30 $1,075,000 Alicja Skibicki, Baird & Warner 847.446.1855
23. 292 Sussex Lane Lake Forest Sunday 12-2 PM $889,000 Cathy McKechney, Griffith, Grant & Lackie Realtors® 847.234.0816
26. 54 Lakeview Terrace Highland Park Sunday 1-3 $1,100,000 Debbie Scully, @properties 847.432.0700
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32. 2400 Farnsworth Northbrook Sunday 1-3 $624,700 Betsy Seno, Coldwell Banker 847-444-9594
35. 2585 Anne Lane Northbrook Sunday, 11am – 1pm $699,000 Scott Kalo, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff 312.719.0626 36. 2961 Acorn Lane Northbrook Sunday 1-3 $479,000 The Trawinski Team, Berkshire Hathaway Home Services Koenig Rubloff 847.212.1498
22. 1310 Gavin Court Lake Forest Sunday 2-4PM $1,795,000 Elizabeth Wieneke, Griffith, Grant & Lackie Realtors® 847.234.0485
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30. 1032 Warrington Rd Deerfield Sunday 1-3 $975,000 Donna Oesterreicher & Heidi Grumley, Coldwell Banker 847.234.8000 31. 810 Chestnut St. Unit A Deerfield Sunday 1-3 $289,000 Rubenstein Fox Team, Baird & Warner 847.565.6666
21. 165 Marion Ave. Lake Forest Sunday 1-3PM $745,000 Leslie Dhamer, Griffith, Grant & Lackie Realtors® 847.234.0485
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17. 871 Longwood Drive Lake Forest Sunday 2-4pm $599,000 Brunhild Baass, Baird & Warner 847.804.0092
20. 119 E. Laurel Unit 107 Lake Forest Sunday 1-3PM $559,000 Kathi Hudson, Griffith, Grant & Lackie Realtors® 847.234.0485
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29. 249 Oak Knoll Highland Park Sunday 12-2 $1,485,000 Sonia Cohen, Coldwell Banker 847-337-6005
18. 991 Ashley Lake Forest Sunday, 1 – 3pm $1,675,000 Eileen Campbell, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff 847.757.5181 19. 1545 Broadland Lane Lake Forest Sunday 1-3PM $1,399,000 Kristen Esplin, Griffith, Grant & Lackie Realtors® 847.234.0485
14. 1070 Jensen Dr. Lake Forest Sunday, 1-3 $1,395,000 Elizabeth Rasmussen, Baird & Warner 847.721.3481
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39. 2131 Middlefork Northfield Sunday 12-2 $1,245,000 Dinny Dwyer Jean Wright Real Estate 847.217.5146 40. 3010 Arbor Lane, #302 Northfield Sunday 1-3 $289,000 Beverly Smith, @properties 847.881.0200 41. 1884 Old Willow Rd, #1A Northfield Sunday 12-2 $799,000 Donna and Erica Zupancic, @properties 847.763.0200 42. 2124 Middlefork Road Northfield Sunday 12-2 $1,099,000 Susan Corley Turk, @properties 847.998.0200
43. 433 Locust Winnetka Sunday 1-3 $1,550,000 Peg O’Halloran, Baird & Warner 847.446.1855
57. 925 Forest Glen Drive East Winnetka $1,299,000 Sunday 2-4 Joanne Hudson, The Hudson Company 847.971.5024
44. 377 Provident Winnetka Sunday 1-3 $1,425,000 Christine Drimalla, Baird & Warner 847.446.1855
58. 618 Willow Rd. Winnetka Sunday 1-3 $719,900 Rubenstein Fox Team, Baird & Warner 847.565.6666
45. 92 Woodley Road Winnetka Sunday 2:30-4:15 $3,200,000 Dinny Dwyer Jean Wright Real Estate 847.217.5146
59. 1185 Elm St Winnetka Sunday 1-3 $969,000 Mary Kay Burke, Coldwell Banker 847.446.4000 60. 808 Lincoln Ave Winnetka Sunday 12-2 $1,299,999 Claudia Gaynor, Coldwell Banker 847.446.4000 61. 349 Sheridan Rd, Winnetka Sunday 1-3 $1,950,000 Blanche Romey, Coldwell Banker 847.446.4000
46. 747 Rosewood Avenue Winnetka Sunday 1-3 $1,750,000 Stacey Melgard, @properties 847.881.0200 47. 1103 Cherry Street Winnetka Sunday 1-3 $1,599,000 Kate Huff, @properties 847.881.0200 48. 475 Orchard Winnetka $1,049,000 Sunday 1-3 Julie Bradbury Miller, The Hudson Company 847.751.2619 49. 892 Cherry Winnetka $895,000 Sunday 1-3 Kelly Lundin, The Hudson Company 847.542.5648 50. 630 Rosewood Winnetka $1,988,000 Sunday 2-4 Paige Dooley, The Hudson Company 847.609.0963 51. 600 Hill Winnetka $1,889,999 Sunday 1-3 Joanne Hudson, The Hudson Company 847.971.5024 52. 745 Ash Winnetka $1,039,000 Sunday 1-3 Joanne Hudson, The Hudson Company 847.971.5024 53. 120 Bertling Winnetka $1,000,000 Sunday 1-3 Howard Meyers, The Hudson Company 847.778.1394 54. 1121 Ash Winnetka $997,000 Sunday 2-4 Rene Nelson, The Hudson Company 847.338.4001 55. 997 Asbury Court Winnetka $2,195,000 Sunday 1-3 Laura McCain, The Hudson Company 847.347.4630 56. 488 Ash Winnetka $3,099,000 Sunday 1-3 Jody Savino, The Hudson Company 312.286.4404
62. 325 Richmond Kenilworth Sunday, 1 – 3pm $2,499,000 Betsy Burke, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff 847.565.4264 63. 28 Ardmore Glenview Sunday 1-3 $339,000 Christine Drimalla, Baird & Warner 847.446.1855 64. 1421 Evergreen Ter. Glenview Sunday 1-3 $1,099,000 Rubenstein Fox Team, Baird & Warner 847.565.6666 65. 114 Garrison Wilmette Sunday 1-3 $799,000 Laurie Gross, Coldwell Banker 847-337-2217 66. 2822 Birchwood Wilmette Sunday 12-2 $1,299,900 Alicja Skibicki, Baird & Warner 847.446.1855 67. 2406 Greenwood Avenue Wilmette Sunday 1-3 $739,000 Laurie Baker Foster, @properties 847.881.0200 68. 1022 Pawnee Wilmette $1,795,000 Sunday 2-4 Julie Bradbury Miller, The Hudson Company 847.751.2619 69. 2312 N Meadow Dr Wilmette Sunday 12-2 $630,000 Sue Hertzberg, Coldwell Banker 847.446.4000 70. 921 Sheridan Rd Wilmette Sunday 2-4 $1,199,000 Bettye Raglin, Coldwell Banker 847.446.4000
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player in transition Williams coming into her own as point guard for Lake Forest High School BY KEVIN REITERMAN, sports@northshoreweekend.com
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he’s the “little sis” trying to make a name for herself. Well, this should help. Delaney Williams, who had to be convinced to give basketball a whirl a couple of years ago, is now taking the game by … whirlwind. The Lake Forest High School junior dropped 30 points on Lakes in the final game of the LF Tournament on Jan. 18. Thirty. Points. In a 51-47 win over the Eagles, that high point total wasn’t lost on the 5-foot-4 point guard. Williams can read a scoreboard. She knew exactly what was on the line, when she went to the foul line. Point No. 29 and point No. 30 came on a two-shot foul with 27.5 seconds left in regulation. “After I made them, I thought, ‘Oh my God, I’m at 30,’” Williams said. Williams, who plays the game at a dizzying pace, also contributed seven rebounds, seven steals and two assists. “It was the best overall game that she’s ever played,” said LF head coach Kyle Wilhelm, who watched Williams can 11 of 13 free throws for the game, “especially with the way she went to the basket. “She played with a refuse-to-lose mentality,” he added. The Scouts went 3-1 in the invite. And Williams came up with several “something to write home about” numbers. She averaged 21.0 points, 6.3 rebounds, 4.3 steals and 3.5 assists in the four-game set. “She brings such excitement, such energy to the court,” said Wilhelm. “And her teammates feed off that. “When it comes to bringing energy to a team, she sets the bar pretty high,” the LF coach added. “When she has a bad practice, we all have a bad practice.” Her smile — off the court. Infectious. Her enthusiasm — on the court. Contagious. And right now, Williams is crazy in love with the sport. “I love how passionate she is about the game,” said LF junior teammate Tori Salanty. “It’s what drives her.
two-sport athlete with the Scouts. In the spring, she plays — where else? — the striker position for coach Ty Stuckslager’s varsity soccer team. Going from the pitch to the hardwood has been a fairly easy transition for Williams, who loves the fast action of both sports. Scoring goals on breakaways is just as rewarding as scoring points on fast breaks. Her patented play is pulling down a long rebound on the defensive end and going coast to coast at top speed. “I love flying by people,” said Williams. “She’s added a lot of things to her game,” Wilhelm said. But learning the point-guard position wound up being a trial by fire. With Brooke Green sidelined with an ACL injury, Williams was inserted into the varsity’s starting lineup as a freshman. It was a rush job. Williams was forced to handle the speed of the game and make on-court decisions. “I know it was a lot to ask of her,” said Wilhelm. “She probably wasn’t ready. She would be the first to admit that.” Williams, a perfectionist, has come to loathe turnovers. She had 18 miscues in the tournament. “I hate ’em so much,” said Williams. “They’re my biggest pet peeve. “I’m pushing myself hard to make better decisions on the court,” she added. “It’s something that I’m constantly working on.” Wilhelm gives her the benefit of the doubt. “You’ve got to take the good with ONE-DROUS: Delaney Williams of the Scouts takes it to the hoop in tournament game against Buffalo the bad,” said Wilhelm. “We’re a Grove. She averaged 21.0 points per game in the four-game set. PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOEL LERNER. team that is looking to push the “She’s very competitive,” Salanty — and sack king — who currently dition one day at Lake Bluff Middle ball and to score in transition. She’s added. “And she pressures the rest is playing at Colgate University. School. And one of his prime got the ball in her hands a lot so “My brothers have had a major recruit targets was Williams, an she’s going to make some turnovers. of us to do our best.” That competitiveness is pretty influence on me,” said Williams. extremely athletic eighth-grader at “But she’s figuring it out,” the much built in. It comes with the “Without them, I wouldn’t be the the time. coach added. “She’s making better player that I am. family name. She needed some convincing. reads.” Her two brothers were superstar “They’re always giving me advice. Wilhelm had to do his best Perry Williams also is focused on football players at LFHS. Owen Always pushing me to become a Mason impression — presenting shooting the ball. In the tourney, Williams, a 2012 grad, was a stand- better athlete,” she added. “They his case. she shot 44 percent from the field “I didn’t want to play basketball. (32-73) and 75 percent from the out — and breakaway — running don’t let me hang my head.” back who went on to play Division Meanwhile, Wilhelm’s influence Soccer was my sport,” said Wil- foul line (15-20). I football at the University of on her can’t be glossed over. In 2013, liams. “But he finally talked me into “I was in a slump there for a Dayton. Trent Williams, a 2014 the LF coach went on a “hunting it.” while, and I was pretty mad about And now … she is a high-level, it,” said Williams, who is averaging grad, was an all-state linebacker for future basketball players” expe-
12.4 points, 5.1 rebounds, 4.1 steals and 3.1 assists per game this winter. “Now, I’m playing with a lot of confidence.” She credits LF assistant Reanna Perera for improving her shooting form. That instruction has especially paid off at the foul line. “I was not a good free-throw shooter at the beginning of the season,” said Williams. “And it ticked me off. “I’ve been working on it,” she added. “As a point guard, you know that the ball is going to be in your hands at the end of a close game.” Wilhelm also loves her leadership qualities. Williams is not afraid to share her thoughts in the huddle during a tight game. “She can be pretty vocal during a timeout,” said Wilhelm. “She’ll speak up and tell everyone, ‘We’re not going to lose this game.’ ” That, and scoring 30 points in a game, will command a lot of attention. Notable: In addition to beating Lakes 51-47, the Scouts claimed wins over Deerfield 54-51 and Antioch 61-55 in the two-day tourney. Their lone loss was to MidSuburban League powerhouse Buffalo Grove 52-47 in round one on Jan. 16. … The Scouts (9-13) have won six of their last seven games. … Sophomore Maeve Summerville continues to put up good numbers. She had 20 points, 15 rebounds and three blocks against Deerfield. She came up with 17 points and 14 rebounds in the win over Antioch. And, in the loss to BG (17-4), she tallied 14 points and 14 rebounds. … Freshman Grace Tirzmalis had six points and five rebounds in the Deerfield game. She sealed the win by making a steal and hitting two free throws with 2 seconds left. In the finale against Lakes, Tirzmalis finished with 11 points and eight rebounds. … Tori Salanty turned in a solid effort in the Antioch game, finishing with 12 points and three assists. … The Scouts nearly pulled off the upset against BG. They led 22-10 at halftime. But BG senior Sammy Stejskal took over by scoring 17 of her 31 points in the fourth quarter.
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The Page Turner Hill draws — and keeps — attention as top-notch puck possessor, playmaker for 15-3 Loyola Gold BY BILL MCLEAN, sports@northshoreweekend.com
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he photo is on page 25 of this winter ’s thic k O’Grady Cup Thanksgiving Tournament official program. The image is of Loyola Academy Gold senior forward Ryan Hill, not much older than two, a full-page tribute from his proud parents, Terry and Katie. Little Ry’s lips are slightly puckered, as if he’s about to utter “goo” or “ga.” His head is tilted to his left. He is looking warily at someone, something, to his right. An inch above his right eyebrow is a small cut. He wears it well. Tough kid. Hockey tough, already. Years later, many years, a 5-foot-10, 170-pound Ryan Hill is a bundle of speed and skills and stamina on an ice rink in Lincolnwood, flying past players from Rockford, controlling and deftly pupeteering a puck, looking, looking, looking for an open teammate. Two of the center’s passes turned into assists in a 9-1 victory at American Heartland Ice Arena on Jan. 16, and two of his shots turned into goals, upping the co-captain’s totals for a 15-3 club to eight goals and 15 assists. The lefty is tied for first, with senior forward Michael Gonzalez, among Gold mates in assists, and he ranks third in goals behind Gonzalez (11) and co-captain and linemate Dan O’Grady (15). “I’m not concerned with scoring,” Hill, a Wilmette resident, says. “I try to get other players involved. I love to get other players involved. I consider myself a playmaker first. Playmaking … it’s my thing.” From playpen occupant to teenage playmaker (see page 21 in the official program, a current photo, a dead-serious headshot), this is your life, Ryan Hill. He first wielded a hockey stick at the age of three and fell for the sport instantly. Hill hated to see house league games end, but he loved sipping a slushy, his dad almost always nearby, after each game. “I was always itching to play hockey when I was little,” Hill
at both ends of the ice.” More similarities. “I like his style of play,” Hill says of Stastny. “Plus he’s missing a couple of teeth.” Hill smiles, not a tooth missing in his mouth. Off the ice, Hill is a movie guy. Not too long ago he saw The Revenant, starring Leonardo DiCaprio. The actor portrays legendary frontiersman Hugh Glass. Hill liked it. Hill thinks DiCaprio deserved the Oscar nomination he received for Best Actor. “It was pretty gory,” Hill says. “Great movie. Leo acted a lot with his eyes and his facial expressions.” Hill, hoping to play club or intramural hockey at a college in the Midwest, acts the only way he knows when he’s on the ice during a game: with verve, with purpose. “Ryan is competitive, likes to win,” LaVarre says. “He is intense. I like the conversations I’ve had with him off the ice. They’re good ones, open ones, a lot of give and take. What also impresses me about Ryan is the way he conducts himself when he’s on the bench. He’s cheering for his teammates, giving them high fives. That’s what it’s all about it, isn’t it? He did a lot of that at the Quad [in November], GREAT ESCAPE: Loyola Gold’s Ryan Hill (left), seen here trying to stave off a Glenbrook North player in earlier action this season, brings showing his selfless side. I saw him and heard him, and I plenty to the ice. The co-captain has eight goals and 15 assists. PHOTOGRAPHY BY joel lerner thought, ‘Good, he gets it, truly recalls. “I love the sport. It’s the gritty, fearless, tenacious, vocal. game, in November. LA Gold Ray, an assistant captain, adds. gets it.’ ” best sport. The game is awesome. Hill is fast, quick-handed, ef- won 3-2, in a shootout. The “He’s fast, one of the fastest guys The pace of the game is ficient, Jonathan Toews selfless. shootout lasted 13 rounds, way on our team, beating guys wide, Notable: In addition to Hill’s twoawesome. There’s not a faster “Ryan,” Loyola Academy lengthier than most shootouts creating space for himself to goal, two-assist night in LA sport than hockey, in my Gold coach DJ LaVarre says, in oater flicks. Junior defense- make plays.” Gold’s 9-1 rout of Rockford on opinion. But what I love most “lets his hockey do all the man Parker Ray, a Chicagoan, Hill’s favorite professional Jan. 16, senior forward Dan about the sport is the team at- talking for him. He is offensive- scored a goal for Gold in regu- hockey player is St. Louis Blues O’Grady struck for two goals and mosphere, being around my minded, with offensive skills. lation. One of the first guys to center Paul Stastny, a 30-year- delivered three assists, and junior teammates, my f riends, my The puck is on his stick, a lot. congratulate and praise him was old dual citizen (United States, defenseman Ben Odle and senior hockey brothers for six months.” He plays a lot of minutes, and Hill, one of two (senior defense- Canada) and former member of forward Michael Gonzalez, an Hill dabbled in lacrosse for he puts the onus on himself to man Sam Rascia was the other) the Colorado Avalanche. He is assistant captain, each had a goal his first two springs at Loyola do well. You watch him on the who got credit for an assist on smallish (6-0) and quick, two of and an assist. Matt Beck, Dan Academy before sitting down ice … it’s hard not to notice that the tally. Hill’s traits. He is a lefty, like Arkus and Peter Mathewson “Good leader, good guy, per- Hill. He is a playmaker, like tallied a goal apiece. Other assists with his parents one day and hop he has, that hop in his announcing hockey would be skates. Ryan took a big step in sonable,” Ray says of Hill. “He Hill. Buffa82, a St. Louis fan, came from Kyle Rock, Dan his only sport for the final two his conditioning in the offsea- came right up to me [after the writes, on SB Nation (stlouis- Stevens, Connell O’Brien and years of his prep career. He and son. He’s as fresh in the begin- Quad goal] and said some nice gametime.com), “Stastny is a Sam Rascia. LA goaltender O’Grady skated as Gold’s co- ning of games as he is at the end things. Pretty cool. That was playmaker of the highest order. Thomas Moran made six saves at assistant captains last winter. of games. pretty cool. He logs big minutes and makes American Heartland Ice Arena in The pair of A’s then graduated LA Gold faced New Trier “He sets a great example, how big plays. He makes other Lincolnwood. The win was Gold’s to a pair of C’s. O’Grady is Green in a Quad game, big hard he works on and of the ice,” players great and creates action sixth in its last seven games.
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Going full Borys Determined Highland Park gymnast goes all out — in all of her pursuits BY BILL MCLEAN, sports@northshoreweekend.com
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ictoria Borys had a toe shoot on her mind. It is a release move on the uneven bars, a new move for the Highland Park High School senior gymnast this winter. She warmed it up before a dual meet at Maine West earlier this month. The warm-up session did not go well on Jan. 12. “I wasn’t connecting,” Borys, a co-captain and third-year varsity member, recalls. “I was nervous when it was my turn to compete on bars.” The 5-foot-7 ½ Giant gripped a bar and started her routine, which included another fresh move, a switch kip. She made two decisions before attempting her toe shoot. They were good ones. “I took a deep breath. I went for it,” Borys says. At some point during her flight, nervousness bailed. Confidence replaced nervousness, hopping aboard. Borys then nailed the toe shoot. Heady stuff. Judges liked what they saw and awarded her a career-best score of 7.15. “It was a great feeling,” Borys says of executing the smooth connection. “I strive to be perfect, even though perfection doesn’t really exist in gymnastics. Gymnastics has taught me to be dedicated to my teammates and to myself.” Borys, with a background in rhythmic gymnastics and ballroom dancing, came out for gymnastics at HPHS as a sophomore. You have to attribute some of her competitiveness to another one of her other former passions: go-kart racing. On weekends, when she was nine, her father, Jack, began letting her race at a facility in Buffalo Grove with one of her good friends, current Fremd senior Nicole Sygieda. Jack occasionally races Porches at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin. “Very determined, and she’s one of our hardest-working girls in the gym,” Giants gymnastics coach Jose Salazar says of Borys, one of three seniors on varsity. “She sets goals. She’s a natural leader; the girls see that leadership, recognize it and appreciate
BORYS BORYS: Highland Park High School’s Victoria Borys competes on the floor exercise at the Niles North Invite. PHOTOGRAPHY BY jON DURR
it, and they listen to her, follow her. I can count on her. She is always willing to do whatever she can to help the team if one of her teammates is unable to compete.” A few Giants, including Borys, are milling around the uneven bars at a recent practice, chalking up to prepare for swings, toe shoots, dismounts. None of Borys’ teammates is ready to jump and commence a practice routine. Borys is ready before anybody else is. Borys sees an opening. Time is precious. “Victoria,” Salazar, “jumps up and goes. She takes advantage of chances like that to do what she needs to do in practice. I like that about her. I like a lot of things about her. Solid kid, takes everything in stride. She takes every-
thing seriously enough but not so serious that it prevents her from having fun in gymnastics.” Borys and senior teammate Maydeli Campos like to keep things light before dual meets and invitationals. They normally complete a tag-team rallying cry, face to face. Borys typically starts it, shouting, “Our goal today is to ….” “Survive,” Campos typically answers. Another popular answer to the set-up pep talk has been, Borys says, “… [to] not break a bone.” It’s a rough sport, gymnastics. If you are a gymnast and not hurting at this point in the season, you are a gymnast waiting to perform a routine for the first time. Borys suffered a serious ankle injury
earlier this winter, reducing her to sideline status for a couple of weeks. Campos has overcome shin splints and a back injury and a uncooperative right elbow. She has, in her gymnastics career (two-plus years), dealt with four right-elbow dislocations. The presence of Victoria Borys is a soothing one. Nobody in the HPHS gymnastics program needs a salve, any kind of salve, more than Campos does. “Victoria,” Campos says, “is outgoing and fun, nice and caring. She’s a teammate who likes to ask, ‘Are you OK?’ She’s like a mom to me in the gym. She’s smart, too. She has tutored me in math. “Victoria,” she adds, “never gives up when she’s working on [a gymnastics move]. That’s why
her release move on bars is really good and her form on floor is strong.” The team’s ace hair braider? Borys, no question. “Girls wait in line to have Victoria braid their hair,” Campos says. “If there’s not enough time to do it before we have to get on the bus for an away meet, she finishes the job on the bus. She’s good at braiding hair, really good. It stays together.” Borys, though, is interested in majoring in pre-med, not hairstyling. Regenerative medicine fascinates her. She is taking an anatomy class. A surgeon visited her class in the fall. Videos shown in the class, cool ones, captivated her. Fluent in English and Polish, Borys hopes to be fluent in
Spanish before heading to medical school. “I value education highly,” she says. Borys applied early decision to Macalester College, a diverse liberal arts school in Saint Paul, Minnesota. MC accepted her. The college, apparently, values all that Borys has to offer, from her head to her toe (shoot). Notable: Giants senior co-captain Avery Spitz earned a teamhigh two medals at the Niles North Gymnastics Invitational on Jan. 16. She took third on floor exercise (8.75) and eighth on vault (8.8). Highland Park freshman Ayla Ochoa received an eighthplace medal after performing an 8.0 on the balance beam.
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Brooks’ contributions for New Trier swim team is no laughing matter BY BILL MCLEAN, sports@northshoreweekend.com
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osh Runkle had recently been named New Trier’s boys swimming coach when he visited the recruiting page of CollegeSwimming, a website. This was more than a year ago. Runkle read about Danny Brooks, a Winnetka resident, a Class of 2016 recruit. Runkle read about Larry Brooks, another Winnetka resident, another Class of 2016 recruit. Runkle’s eyes widened. Great, he thought. He would get to coach the Brooks brothers, fast swimmers, for two varsity seasons. Runkle later got his Trevians together to introduce himself. He conducted a roll call. Danny Brooks was present. Runkle looked for Danny’s brother. “Where’s Larry Brooks?” Runkle asked. Danny Brooks, a junior at the time, raised his hand, acknowledging “Larry” had been his nickname since the second grade. Danny Brooks … Larry Brooks … same guy. “What do you want me to call you?” Runkle asked at the meeting. “Any name you want,” an accommodating Brooks replied. “OK, good,” Runkle said, “I’ll call you Darryl.” Runkle’s sense of humor is right up there with Brooks’, clever and sneaky and headliner-atZanies good. New Trier senior swimmer Willie Kinsella, a 200yard freestyler, thinks Brooks, a senior sprint freestyler and occasional butterflyer, should consider pursuing a career as a comedian. Seriously. “Danny is hilarious,” Kinsella, a Bucknell University recruit, says. “Everybody who knows him knows he’s hilarious. He’ll say something to you, mess with you, and then, a little later, you’ll realize, Oh, what he had said then and there was hilarious. His sense of humor is a part of him, a big part.” Generating a series of laughs was not on Brooks’ Must Do list when he huddled with his relay mates before the start of the 400 free relay in a home dual with
— edgy at times, subtle at times — keeps his teammates and his coaches laughing at times, thinking at times. It is a wonderful contrast, a swimmer with a dry sense of humor. Swimmer Danny Brooks owns one. If you are an athlete in a grueling, trying sport like swimming, it helps to seek relief, any kind of relief. NT swimmers in need of the comic variety often look for Brooks to provide it. “Sometimes, when we’re training as a team, I like to deliver the occasional inside joke, lighten things up a bit,” Brooks says. “I can be sarcastic, too. “I don’t have a lot of different voice tones.” Notable: New Trier, team champion, finished first in three events at its Trevian Relays on Jan. 16. Trevians sophomore Charlie Scheinfeld won the 100 breaststroke (57.73) and swam on the victorious junior varsity 200 medley relay (1:38.68, with classmate Tommy Wilson and juniors Jack Walter and Alex Flanagan). Scheinfeld’s time in the 100 breaststroke and senior teammate Maxwell Robertson’s time (1:02.33, fifth place) in the same event added up to a combined effort of 2:00.06 — more than four seconds faster than the aggregate ANOTHER BROOKS IN THE WALL: Danny Brooks of the Trevians reacts after anchoring the 200 freestyle relay at the recent Evanston showing of runner-up Lyons Invite. PHOTOGRAPHY BY joel lerner Township’s two entrants. NT’s JV Naperville Central on Dec. 11, seconds faster than the runner-up “A great kid, a super kid, a hard- a better environment in which to 400 free relay crew of Walter, the second meet of the season. unit’s time. Brooks had also working guy who works like crazy,” grow up than a swimming one. sophomore Pierson Ohr and Brooks had some things on his touched first in the 100 fly Runkle says of the Lehigh Uni- The population of swimmers with juniors Phillip Srivastava and mind. Brooks wanted to empty (54.16) and second in the 50 free versity-bound Brooks, a state a poor work ethic is a tiny one. Has Patrick Drake clocked a meet-best them, right there on deck. He was (22.43) and helped the Trevians’ qualifier in the 100 fly and a to be. The number of hours they 3:21.79. NT totaled 169 points, proctor-at-SAT-test-center 200 medley relay (1:36.29) finish member of the ninth-place 200 must devote to the sport each ahead of runner-up Neuqua Valley serious. in first place in the varsity’s free relay (1:27.13) at the state week, the number of laps they must (155) and Lyons Township (147, “Some of my teammates 106-80 victory. Brooks continued meet last winter. “He gets after it, complete each week, the height of third place). … NT defeated host looked tired,” Brooks, a 5-foot- to get it done at big invitationals hard, in practices and in meets. I a successful swimmer’s pain Glenbrook South 106-80 in a 10, 175-pounder, recalls. “I wasn’t in January. NT (2,890 points) like him a lot. Danny does what threshold … high, all high. A Central Suburban League South tired. I used my energy to get the topped an 18-team invite at you ask him to do, a ‘Where do swimming adage goes something dual meet on Jan. 15. Scheinfeld guys going. We each had to swim Evanston on Jan. 9. NT (169) you need me?’ kind of kid. He like this: race times go down, con- stood out, topping the 100 free only another 100 [yards] at the captured a 14-team relays invite swam the 200 and 500 free as a fidence soars. In the water. Out of (47.97) and 100 breaststroke meet. Anybody can swim another in the home water on Jan. 16. freshman, the 50 and 100 free his the water. In swimwear. In street (58.41) fields and collaborating 100. I yelled, but my yelling wasn’t Brooks was a part of a champion- sophomore year, the fly last year. clothes. with seniors Riley Mech, Ryan directed at anybody. It sort of ship relay and two runner-up “I haven’t seen him swim the “It’s the best,” Brooks says of his Wipperfurth and Willie Kinsella happened, a spur-of-the-moment relays in the latter and swam on breaststroke, but I’d bet he isn’t a sport. “I’ve gained a lot of it [con- for a first-place time of 1:29.24 in speech.” a runner-up relay and a third- bad breaststroker. It’ll be interest- fidence] through the years because the 200 free relay. Mech finished ing to see what Lehigh does with of swimming. Swimming also has first in the 50 free (22.3), and Brooks’ words, fiery and ani- place relay in the former. mated and all-business, worked. Brooks also sped to fifth place him. He’ll take off there, do really helped me develop leadership, Trevians senior Danny Brooks The quartet clocked a first-place in the 50 free (22.44) at Evan- well there.” ways to express myself.” sailed to first place in the 100 fly time of 3:14.16, more than four ston. His delightful brand of humor (54.12). Brooks could not have asked for
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Bench strength Being a team manager allows Robbins to be ‘the ultimate teammate’ for Scouts BY BILL MCLEAN, sports@northshoreweekend.com
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home Lake Forest High School boys basketball game ends. Time for Avery Robbins, one of the team’s managers, to get busy. Immediately, hurriedly. The junior, dressed in his Sunday best (blue blazer, khaki pants, tie, top-siders), picks up stray water bottles and towels in front of and behind the Scouts’ bench. He places bottles in bottle holders. He throws a strapped bag on each shoulder, one sagging lower than the other. He then, somehow, manages to walk — no, teeter — to the home locker room, the balancing act’s degree of difficulty rising with each step. Is Robbins carrying all that stuff or is all that stuff carrying Robbins? Hard to tell. “The hardest working man in showbiz,” Scouts varsity assistant coach Austin Scott says of Robbins, a former shooting guard for the school’s freshman and sophomore basketball squads. A Lake Forest High School boys basketball practice begins. Varsity hoopsters stretch. A coach bounces a basketball. It is Scott, a former sharpshooting guard at Lake Zurich High School. He is taking on the hardest working man in showbiz in a one-on-one game, first guy to 11 points wins. Scott, too sharp, wins. Robbins accepts the loss in front of the audience of stretchers and prepares to serve as the varsity’s manager. One of the job’s perks: participation in team drills. Varsity coach Phil LaScala sometimes needs Robbins to forget about the water bottles and the towels and focus on bouncing passes and setting screens during practices. ‘It’s fun,” Robbins, 6-foot and 175 pounds, says of his life as an extended staff member of the LFHS basketball program ( Jackson Douglass is the varsity’s other manager). “The players … they appreciate what we do as managers. I’ve always liked basketball, liked being around it. It’s a team sport; it’s not about individuals. I was seven when I first watched Michigan State play
ROBBINS’ NEST: Lake Forest High School boys basketball co-manager Avery Robbins claps during a timeout against Stevenson earlier this month. He hopes to be a team manager in college. PHOTOGRAPHY BY joel lerner
basketball on TV. It didn’t take long for me to turn into a Michigan State fanatic. I own all kinds of MSU clothes, shorts and jerseys. I have two pairs of MSU basketball shoes. “I have, you could say, a few green ties.” And that Star Wars movie has made a few dollars. Robbins received his first high five from MSU men’s basketball coach Tom Izzo at a MSUNorthwestern game in Evanston.
He was a star-struck gradeschooler at the time. He figures he has received nine more Izzo high fives since then. One of his dreams is to shake Izzo’s hand after MSU wins — as an MSU student/MSU men’s basketball team manager. None of the current LFHS varsity players and coaches would be surprised if Robbins were to land the gig in East Lansing before the start of the Spartans’ 2017-18 season. “Avery does everything for
memorable and filled with dips and rolls, a rollercoaster trip without lap bars. Students looked at basketball players in the LFHS hallways and saw rock stars. The rookie manager, hooked after the experience, wanted the next season to start the day after Lake Forest lost to eventual state champion Stevenson. Lake Forest’s 2015-16 edition played its 14th game on Jan. 8, a 48-41 defeat of visiting Warren to improve to 8-6, 2-3 in the North Suburban Conference Lake division. Robbins expended nearly as much energy as some of the game’s starters did, making sure the home players got what they needed (water, towels, pep talks) each quarter and every now and then hustling to remove a layer from the top of a sticky board (for the soles of sneakers), located near the scorer’s table for players preparing to enter the game. Watch Robbins work behind the bench during a game; it’s controlled frenzy. LaScala considers Robbins more than a team manager. “He’s the best, the ultimate teammate,” the head coach says. “He’ll do anything to help make the team better. To Avery, it’s all about everybody else, the team. He wants to do what he can to contribute to our success. He gets into it on the bench, really into it. I hear him. We all hear him. He likes to shout, ‘Box out! Get the rebound!’ He loves what he does, and he’s a class act, a really classy person, a joy to be around.”
Notable: Scouts junior guard Justin McMahon poured in 19 everybody on the team,” Scouts noticed that when he took on points in a 39-36 home loss to junior guard Justin McMahon Coach Scott before a practice.” St. Viator on Jan. 15. He was says. “He’s The Man, in pracRobbins performed team 7-of-10 from the field, hitting tices, in pre-game, during games. manager duties for the first time three of four three-point atHe gets rebounds for us at prac- shortly after his sophomore tempts. LFHS senior forward tice, and he gets the trainer when hoops season last winter. The Lorenzo Edwards grabbed a one of us needs the trainer. In Scouts’ varsity club was poised team-high 12 rebounds, and games he’s all over the place, for a lengthy postseason run, and junior forward Brian Stickler really good at multitasking. You Robbins wanted to be a part of finished with seven points and can tell he really likes basketball the ride. LaScala welcomed him, six boards. The Lions (10-2) led and enjoys being a manager. added him to his staff. The ride, 20-17 at the half. Each team “Very talkative, too,” he adds. four games total, galloped all the scored 12 points in the third “Not shy. Avery doesn’t back way to a Class 4A sectional final quarter and seven in the fourth. down from a challenge. We in Waukegan. It was thrilling and The Scouts slipped to 8-7.
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Local Doctor’s Journey Told in ‘Concussion’ said to me, ‘I know who you are,’ ” recalls Bailes, chairman of the little after 7 a.m., on a department of neurosurgery and weekday in the Evanston co-director of the NorthShore Hospital Café, a neuro- Neurological Institute, Northsurgeon in light-blue scrubs and Shore University HealthSystem. a white lab coat arrives, looking “He had studied YouTube videos refreshed. He smiles. His smile of people interviewing me to turns his eyes into a Clint East- hear my voice, to get my accent wood squint, penetrating and down. I felt honored to be porHollywood cool. He has two trayed by him in the movie. surgeries scheduled for today, the “Years ago,” the native of New first beginning in about an hour. Orleans adds, “people started The lone surgery he had per- telling me, ‘You look a lot like formed the day before lasted Alec Baldwin.’ ” seven hours, no breaks. Dr. Julian Bailes and Omalu, a native of Bailes takes a seat, having already Nigeria and a now the chief had his favorite breakfast (apple, medical examiner of San Joaquin coffee) at home. County in California, became My early takeaway: at least medical teammates following the one doctor eats an apple a day autopsy, conducted by Omalu, to keep the doctor away. of former Pittsburgh Steelers The Lake Forest resident and center Mike Webster (Morse’s father of five (ages 13 to 20) role in Concussion) in the knows exactly what he has to do next: field another series of questions from another journalist about Concussion, the movie starring Will Smith, Alec Baldwin, Albert Brooks and David Morse. Baldwin portrays Bailes in the film about the discovery of CTE (chronic traumatic encephalopathy) by Dr. Bennet Omalu (Smith’s role) and the quest to get the NFL to acknowledge the existence of CTE, a degenerative disease found in people who had absorbed repetitive head trauma, including sub-concussive hits Allegheny County Coroner’s that occur during practically Office in Pittsburgh. The NFL every play in every football game Hall of Famer was 50 and living at every level. in his pickup truck when he died Go ahead, ask away, ask me in 2002. Bailes had served as a anything, Bailes’ welcoming, Steelers team doctor from 1989patient expression declares. He 99. Persistence led Omalu to gets an easy inquiry to kick determine that Webster had things off, one about Baldwin. suffered from CTE. Bailes did Baldwin, 57, has slicked-back some math, figuring Webster had hair. Bailes, 58, has slicked-back endured close to 100,000 hits to hair. Baldwin has a sturdy build. his head during his football Bailes, owner of a fifth-degree career. “Mike played in a time when black belt in martial arts, has a sturdy build. How long did it NFL teams normally practiced take the film’s casting director to five times a week during the look at a photo of Bailes and call season,” Bailes says. “Each pracBaldwin’s agent? A guess: not tice was hard, full of contact. very. Players back then couldn’t wait “When I first met him, Alec to play on Sundays, because the By BILL McLEAN
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journey, won’t be a pleasant journey, but it will be an important journey. My goal, all along, was never to hurt the sport of football; it was and still is to help make the game safer for players. There is still a lot more work to do.” Omalu, a resident of Lodi, California, occasionally visits Bailes at Evanston Hospital. They work together there, catch up. Bailes says Omalu is “outgoing, engaging.” Bailes first met Smith near a red carpet in November, before the premiere of Concussion in Los Angeles. He says Smith “has no pretense.” He also s a y s Concussion is “accurate.” Baldwin’s first appearance in the movie is set in Bailes’ o f fi c e. M o r s e ’s Webster, his h e a l t h falling apart, enters the office. He is desperate for help, for relief, for the sight of a familiar face. The men embrace. Another moving scene Dr. Julian Bailes | Illustration by Barry Blitt depicts the crestfallen reaction games weren’t as intense and a volunteer basis, the medical of Smith’s Omalu to news that hard-hitting as the practices advisory committee for Pop NFL owners wanted Bailes, not were.” Warner Youth Football. Omalu, to present research findThe movie chronicles the “Science is often a process,” ings to the owners at a meeting efforts of Omalu and Bailes to says Bailes, an all-state football held in Chicago in 2007. make the NFL aware of, and player (safety/linebacker) in high Bailes’ favorite statistic is a accept some responsibility for, school and a member of North- small one and a significant one: the long-term consequences of western State University 1 percent. Bailes’ Pop Warner repetitive blows to the head. (Natchitoches, Louisiana) foot- medical advisory committee Suicides of former NFL players ball teams before a neck injury estimates that is how many Pop Junior Seau and Dave Duerson convinced him to stop playing Warner youth football players, have been linked to CTE. Bailes the sport at 20. “With medical per season, suffer a concussion, has been a neurological consul- discoveries, there’s usually a saga thanks to the organization’s tant to the NFL Players Asso- to the journey. I told my wife recent commitment to eliminate ciation since 1994 and heads, on [Colleen] this won’t be a fun head-contact drills in practice.
About 4,000 Pop Warner games are played across the country each weekend in the fall, Bailes notes. “The sport of football is changing, evolving, getting safer, especially at the youth level,” Bailes, an uncle of University of Alabama reserve defensive back Nate Staskelunas, says. “As long as youth coaches follow the rules of their leagues and teach the game the right way, parents of young football players shouldn’t be concerned. Football, like soccer and lacrosse and hockey, is a contact sport. Collisions occur; risks are involved. Kids need to be sure they understand that and make sure it’s a sport they want to play. Football, I still believe, has a lot of benefits. Parents need to be sure their kids understand the risks involved in contact sports. Parents … many of us have taught our kids how to ride a bike, how to skateboard, how to snow ski and water ski. Risky activities, all of them.” The International Olympic Committee plans to fly Bailes to Switzerland later this month. The committee wants him to consult it on ensuring the safety of athletes, notably boxers, ahead of the 2016 Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. A doctor’s busy life will get busier. Bailes finds time to spend with his children. He cherishes the time. There’s time, too, though not as much nowadays, to stay fit at Degerberg Academy of Martial Arts in Chicago. The discipline has been a part of his life for 30 years. “I enjoy the physicality of martial arts, as well as all of the challenges,” Bailes says. “Martial arts and neurosurgery … they’re completely different when you think about them, one requiring a physical nature, the other a great deal of delicacy.” It is 7:45 a.m., time for Bailes to excuse himself and exit the hospital café. He is needed elsewhere. A challenge, requiring delicacy, awaits him.
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